Congratulations to Swift, who won the Best Female Video award with her song, "You Belong With Me", presented by MTV.  Unfortunately, her moment was spoiled by the abonxious behaviour of Kanye West, who jumped up on stage, stealing the microphone out of Swift’s hands, to tell everyone that he thought Beyonce had the best video. (…)

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I have to admit, I like her sense of fashion.  Auto tuning is the plastic surgery of music.  It makes bad notes good by bending or altering the pitch to where it is meant to be.  It’s used often in the recording studio.  Let’s face it, the make-up and polish that goes behind promoting can carry an artist with a lack of ear-training skills quite a ways. 
Even in live performances, technology can straighten out that bad note spontaneously.  Hopefully, technology won’t overstep the expectations and boundaries of true talent.  There is plenty out there, and the money doesn’t need to be wasted on someone who can’t truly deliver. 
Right on Christina! (…)

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Legendary guitarist and inventor Les Paul passed away on August 13th. He started his career as a jazz/country guitarist, but began tinkering with electric guitar designs in the late ’30s. (…)

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